I'm on an Eeepc 1005HA system with the now notorious Atheros 9285 wifi hardware. It worked under penguin with the ath9k driver, but I decided to try out FreeBSD for the ZFS benefits and to sharpen up for a small biz I'm thinking about starting up. All other hardware in the netbook works fine though.
I need advice on getting this to work. I searched around and found out that Rui Paulo has created a driver and patched the ath driver [http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=81530], but this patch is only in a later updated version of 8. The DVD of Freebsd 8 release has the unpatched ath.
So, I was wondering could I download a higher version kernel from the source tree and compile a new kernel that has the ath patch. Then I would be able to use my AR9285 wifi card after having the later driver with support for my card. Do you think that would work?
I need advice on getting this to work. I searched around and found out that Rui Paulo has created a driver and patched the ath driver [http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=81530], but this patch is only in a later updated version of 8. The DVD of Freebsd 8 release has the unpatched ath.
So, I was wondering could I download a higher version kernel from the source tree and compile a new kernel that has the ath patch. Then I would be able to use my AR9285 wifi card after having the later driver with support for my card. Do you think that would work?